[ale] file sharing Linux to XP

[Brian Whigham]

If you want to share files on the XP box
make sure your XP share is available to the network, not just local 
users (probably best to forget about any wizard Winbloze offers).  
Create a user on the winders box that you'll use to connect from the Lin 
box.  But, it sounds like you want to store files on the SUSE box.

If you want to share files on the SUSE box (which sounds like what you 
wanna do)
use the samba user commands to create a samba user (smbpasswd?) (or I 
think you can set it up to sync with your linux system users).  Make 
sure you set appropriate permissions and preferences in 
/etc/samba/smb.conf.  I usually use 700 as a filemask and set up to 
share the home directories.  To make things easy, create a  username 
that you're already using to login to the XP box.

Read the manuals.

bw

Christopher Fowler wrote:

>Here is one question?
>
>How do you get  WinXP to trust the linux box.  I have used my Linux
>desktop as a new "Program Files" directory due to limited space on the
>winders box.  Every time I execute a program installed there I get a
>confirmation dialog from windows.
>
>On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:34 -0500, Brian Whigham wrote:
>  
>
>>without using sneakernet, I'd recommend SAMBA for Linux.  It will allow 
>>you to use existing windows protocols.  Windows doesn't play well (for 
>>free) with anybody else's toys (i.e. NFS).  SAMBA is easy to get going.  
>>Your SUSE box is probably practically ready to hook up to Windows already.
>>
>>bw
>>
>>Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>Paul Cartwright wrote:
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>>>>ok, what is the easiest way to share file between my SUSE 10.0 Linux 
>>>>desktop and my WinXP laptop.
>>>>   
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>An external usb drive?
>>>
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